I love Chi Spacca - been many times.
Most of the meal was fantastic:
New dish (to me) Potato, Comté & Caramelized Onion Pie with mustard salad was fantastic (though I think the mustard salad was just frisee - maybe that is what mustard greens are, IDK). Such depth of flavor and wonderful crust.
Hell, even the Ribeye was fantastic.
Elvis (Nancy Silverton) was in da house (not cooking but drinking wine and supervising someone’s meal).
The problem: at least half the slices of ribeye were much too fatty to eat.
And I do not mean marbled - I mean surrounded by inedible, untrimmed fat. Had the steak been properly trimmed no one in their right mid would sell it for $200+.
Fortunately, it was just two of us, so we had more than enough meat,and the meat was incredible. Well cooked and well seasoned. Great bone too.
We did not send it back but probably should have.
We did alert them on the Comments Card.
Never seen frisee that dark, but maybe its a thing.
I feel like ordering steak at Chi Spacca is a rookie move. Most people seem to be disappointed by it in one way or another. The pork chop is the large protein of my choice there.
Yes. I usually do one of the large pork dishes or the chicken but was with a steak lover (who, it must be said, loved the steak just not the fat or the fat price for the fat).
Correction: technically the fat edible.
Anyone who enjoys a mouthful of thick warmish, chewy fat with zero muscle will definitely be happy with the steak. And maybe even the price.
For such a large thick cut of meat its beneficial to keep the fat cap on so that it cooks evenly. Perhaps you would have preferred they trim it off after cooking? I for one enjoy those pure fat bits on the outside, lightly rendered and a little crisp and smokey.
Depending on the beef and how well the fat has been cooked, I sometimes prefer up to 50-50 meat and fat, and usually 75-25. My usual complaint is that they didn’t leave enough fat on the steak.
